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Performance is a critical concern when evaluating cloud providers, but can
be difficult to measure.
Google Cloud Platform provides two open-source tools that you can use to
benchmark the performance of Cloud Platform compared to other cloud platforms.
Releasing these tools as open source makes it possible for community members to
contribute to the benchmarks to keep them up-to-date and unbiased.
PerfKit Benchmarker
— a benchmarking tool used to measure and compare the services of
cloud providers. Initially created at Google, it is now a community
effort that includes independent researchers, academic institutions and
technology companies. PerfKit Benchmarker streamlines running benchmark tests on
supported cloud providers with unified, simple commands. PerfKit Benchmarker
measures the end-to-end time to provision resources and generates reports on
standard metrics of peak performance, such as latency, throughput,
time-to-complete, and IOPS.
PerfKit Explorer
— a visualization tool that provides rich functionality in creating and
editing dashboards. It can be used as visualization tool for any BigQuery data.
It can also be used with PerfKit Benchmarker to visualize benchmarking data.
Try it for yourself
If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how
Cloud Billing performs in real-world
scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and
deploy workloads.
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